The artist claimed that when he was very small, his parents divorced due to the loss of his brother before he was even born.
—”I think it did form me as a person, definitely, and formed a lot of my choices of why I went into music and why I wanted to be on a stage and why I wanted people’s attention – because I don’t think I got enough attention from my parents,” he said in an interview conducted in advance of the release of his memoir Never: The Autobiography.
Newton-le-Willows native Astley rose to fame at the age of 21 with the number one hit song Never Gonna Give You Up.
After selling five million copies of his album Whenever You Need Somebody, Astley, now 58, departed the music business a few years later.
He claimed that being a parent himself had an impact on the choice.
“I think after four or five years of it I would kind of had enough…and I think being a parent solidified that for me,” he told Tonight, “even though I was having an amazing career in music and I was so lucky to experience a lot of the things that I did.”
After his early triumph, Astley joked that it was “all downhill” from there on.
“I actually didn’t grow up, or at least I didn’t grow up in the traditional sense when you might go through
